# Instant Messages/Community Design Principles Genuine social relationships are formed when individuals with consensus engage in social interactions. One cannot befriend someone without reaching consensus. Socrates supports the use of NFT avatars, where holding similar NFTs represents a shared consensus among individuals. People with the same NFTs join a Socrates group, thereby forming consensus-based social relationships. On Socrates, engaging in debate and voting on the same individuals or matters automatically facilitates the formation of friendships, creating communities. Debate creates relationships on a deeper, intellectual level, as users engage with each other's thought processes and cognitive awareness. Based on the other person's perspectives, users can decide who to establish a social relationship with. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.socrates.com/main/whitepaper/socrates-whitepaper/product-feature-design-philosophy/web2/instant-messages-community-design-principles.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.